English Practice for Secondary Schools (Classic Reprint)

By Norman McLeod

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Excerpt from English Practice for Secondary Schools

Speaking generally, the mastery of English, oral and written, comes through imitation and practice, rather than through the application of rules of grammar. Accordingly, models by standard authors and by pupils of grades nine and ten are included for detailed study and for mimic writing. Nevertheless, an irreducible minimum of pure gram mar, chiefly concerned with the function of words and the structure of the sentence, must be taught. This book seeks to combine, in a series of daily exercises, practices in speaking and writing, and the grammar necessary to those skills, without undue stress upon formal definitions or much abstract teaching.

On the whole, the arrangement of the material is topical, but to a very considerable extent it is also sequential since new skills are introduced into each unit and those same skills are drilled upon and further developed in succeeding units. It is hoped that in the first portion of the course teachers and pupils will concentrate upon the sentence, aiming to achieve facility in oral and written expression. In the remainder of the course the combination of good sentences into well constructed paragraphs provides the material for intensive work in composition. In all the units, wherever possible, an effort has been made to base the work upon activities and experiences of growing boys and girls.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1391779215
• ISBN13: 9781391779218
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"